Around Temple Square

This is in the Church Office Building.  I thought for sure that we would run into Pres. Monson or one of the others as we walked the halls, but we soon discovered that this is not even their office building.  They work out of the administration building, and they use all of the underground tunnels for foot traffic, so we were out of luck.

Polly and Lillian on the 26th floor of the church office building.

DeWitt

Dallin

Allison

Walking out of the Church office building.  Everything on Temple square was so beautiful!

That's the administrative building behind the family

A good shot of the beauty

We ate here at the Lion House Pantry....Yum

Food was deli sh!

This is Brigham Young's house.  It was very beautiful and big.  He built and designed it himself.

Looking the other direction in the same room

Outside of Brigham Young's house, "The Beehive House"

Dallin under the Seagull Gate.    When I see this, I know we're in Salt Lake

This is at the Church History Museum.  We got to see how the prompter works

Church history museum

Joseph and Hyrum's death masks.

They had a Spanish section.  These kids cannot hear music and see costumes without dancing.  They had fun.

Salt Lake

So here we are in the heart of Salt Lake....Temple Square, and the old Tabernacle.  This is Monday.  May 23, 2011

We were all amazed at the magnificence of this beautiful Temple.

Can I just say....." I love my family"

We found a wondering missionary to take our picture

This was a pretty awesome display.  Fist of all it's an exact replica of the Salt Lake Temple, with the real one just out side of the huge window.  And in the small one you can look inside and see down to the tiniest detail what the temple looks like on the inside.

Dallin

DeWitt

Allison

Polly

Lillian

Scott and Rebecca

Our wonderful family in front of the Salt Lake Temple

The Brothers

Yep, the Brothers.....typical

The Sisters....about now is when Scott said...."look Pres. Monson is looking out his window and watching you guys"  We were standing right in front of the Church office building.

The whole gang

Scott would not stand on the bride and groom platform, oh well we got a good picture anyway

Driving up to North Logan

This is Saturday, and we thought if we stopped by the MTC on a non check in day that we might be able to walk around and see things, but no!  They had a new security check point and no one was allowed beyond it, so we stood outside and took pictures.

Our beautiful girls

Dallin

Lillian

Polly

DeWitt

Allison

Our handsome boys!

This is a typical shot of our family.  Everyone watching Lillian taking her amazing pictures.  That one really did turn out beautiful.  You can see the Temple through the pretty pink blossoms.

DeWitt came upon this sign.  It was way too cool to pass up.

When we got to Faun and Ed's house.  Scott's sister and brother in law, in Smith field, just above Logan, she had a spread!  We couldn't believe all of the food that she kept bringing out of her refrigerator.  They were very welcoming to us and treated us like royalty.  We got to spend Saturday evening with them, and all day Sunday.  They are so much fun to be around.

The kids loved UTAH grass.  They all ran around Faun's house with bare feet and were acting like little kids.  They had so  much fun and I loved to watch it.

Here they are playing one of their favorite games.....Ninja destruction.

Everybody with Faun, the morning we left.

DeWitt loves the beauty of Utah, and Faun's backyard was beautiful so we decided to take a picture.

Monday morning we drove into Salt Lake and our first stop was "This is the Place Monument"  We were the first ones there, and we were excited and started to walk around, and then not 5 minutes into it, about 5 bus loads of school kids pulled in.  We thought we had seen enough and left :-).

It is never boring with my family.  Everything is fun, exciting and pretty much like a game.  I told the kids to jump for a picture and Dallin was the only one obeying, and he got pushed at the same time as the jump.  Lucky for him, and Polly he is sure footed and landed on both feet.

Nice that some of us can pose for a serious picture.